Paul Kane

Writer Biography

Paul Kane began his professional writing career in 1996, providing articles and reviews for news-stand publications (most recently for DeathRay, SFX and Dreamwatch). He has written the fiction collections Alone (In the Dark), Touching the Flame, FunnyBones and Peripheral Visions, as well as the novellas Signs of Life (shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards 2006), Dalton Quayle Rides Out (introduced by Tom Holt), The Lazarus Condition (introduced by Mick – The Stand -Garris) and RED (featuring art from Dave – MirrorMask – McKean). He appeared in the documentary Assembly of Rogues and his stories have been read on BBC Radio 2. He also won Estronomicon magazine’s 2008 Dead of Night Award (Editor’s Choice) for his short story ‘A Chaos Demon Is For Life’.

He has a B.A. and M.A. from Sheffield Hallam University and is currently working as a lecturer in Creative Writing. Paul was Special Publications Editor for the British Fantasy Society for five years, where he worked on projects with Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Muriel Gray and many others. And he was on the organising committee of FantasyCon for two years (as Co-Chair in 2008). He is co-editor of the Terror Tales series of anthology books and editor of the Shadow Writers line. Recently his story ‘Dead Time’ was developed by Lionsgate/NBC for the US network show Fear Itself, adapted by Steve Niles – 30 Days of Night – and Ben Sokolowski of Bad Robot (Lost, Cloverfield) under the title New Year’s Day, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV), with effects from Oscar-winners KNB (Chronicles of Narnia). There are a number of short movies in pre-production based on his stories and Paul scripted The Opportunity based on his own short story.

His hardback non-fiction book The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, introduced by Doug ‘Pinhead’ Bradley, was nominated for a BFS Award in 2007; he penned a piece on Hellraiser for the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and BFS Award-winning Cinema Macabre book, introduced by Jonathan Ross and featuring such genre names as Simon (Shaun of the Dead) Pegg and Mark (League of Gentlemen) Gatiss; and he is co-editor of the mass market anthology Hellbound Hearts (published by Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster), which gathers together stories inspired by Clive Barker’s mythology from the likes of Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola (Baltimore and Hellboy), Kelley Armstrong (Personal Demon) and Richard Christian Matheson (Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes). His mass market novel Arrowhead for Abaddon/Rebellion, publishers of 2000 AD (a post-apocalyptic reworking of the Robin Hood legend), came out in 2008 in the UK & US followed by its sequel, Broken Arrow, in 2009. Paul’s Shadow Writer site has featured the likes of Stephen King, James Herbert, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan, Brian Lumley, Kevin J. Anderson and Thomas Harris as Guest Writers, and can be found at http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk